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Welcome to the ISU Library research guide for Mathematics. Each tab contains links to resources for students, faculty, and other researchers interested in mathematics and its applications.
If you have any questions regarding your search for information, feel free to contact me with the information noted at the right of this page.
--Kris Stacy-Bates, subject specialist librarian for Mathematics.
- MathSciNet This link opens in a new windowThe American Mathematical Society's easily searchable database of reviews, abstracts and bibliographic information for much of the mathematical sciences literature. Coverage from 1940-present, over 2 million records.
- zbMATH Open This link opens in a new windowzbMATH Open (formerly known as Zentralblatt MATH) covers abstracts and article reviews in pure and applied mathematics, with extensive coverage from 1868 to the present.
Accessibility note: MathSciNet and zbMATH may be difficult to use with screen reader software. If you encounter problems using either of these databases, please contact the librarian for Mathematics for alternative databases or search help.
- Web of Science This link opens in a new windowCovers major journals in a range of subjects, including mathematics, and has links to make it easy to see which authors have cited others.
- Google Scholar This link opens in a new windowProvides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. ISU login allows for easier off-campus access to subscription content.
- Scopus This link opens in a new windowA large database containing scholarly journal articles and conference papers on any topic in science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts & humanities. Includes cited references and h-index information.
Click here for tutorial - ERIC (Education Resource Information Center) - EBSCOhost Access This link opens in a new windowCovers articles, reports and books from all areas of education, including mathematics education.
- Wolfram MathWorldDefinitions, explanations, illustrations, and much more..."the world's most extensive mathematics resource."
